Suicide Bombers Kill 18 in Nigeria Market

Three suicide bombers killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner said Saturday. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the use of suicide bombers in crowded areas is a hallmark of the Islamist militant group, which has killed more that 20,000 people since 2009 and forced more than 2 million to flee their homes. Damian Chukwu, police commissioner for Borno state, said...

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